Ben Slade

To save the withering grasslands of America's West some ranchers are implementing an unusual strategy -- have more cattle grazing, not fewer

There are still 60 days to go before Election Day but the smart money -- lots of it -- is on the GOP winning very, very big

Do humanitarian motives outweigh laws against littering? A court of appeals leaves the question open

Already, the sides are gathering their arguments -- some sharper than others -- as the FCC goes on a listening tour of what Americans want from the Web

Florida Senate candidate Charlie Crist fights flip-flopping charges as the GOP's Marco Rubio surges ahead in some polls and the Democrats' Kendrick Meek appeals to the left

China has long been an unfriendly place for journalists, but two attacks on journalists in Beijing this summer serve as a reminder that the threats to the press can extend beyond censorship to outright violence

Beijing has entertained Fiji's pariah military dictator while doling out lots of cash and support to other impoverished countries in Australia's backyard

Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan's ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands and Tokyo arrested the boat's captain

A trio of financial sheriffs will oversee finance in the entire European market

In her new book, 'A Place of Healing', disability activist and Christian author Joni Eareckson Tada takes on a question that has vexed the faithful for centuries: If God can heal people, why doesn't He always?

A report from the Atlantic Explorer, which is trying to establish a data base for changes in the planet's oceans

What makes the human heart sing? Researchers are taking a close look. What they've found may surprise you

The good news for George Clooney: for the first time in his career, a movie in which he solo-starred opened No.1 at the weekend box office

A new study by Princeton University researchers put a figure on happiness: $75,000 a year

A British government agency critiqued Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon, for working conditions on its North Sea platforms. Its conclusions were bad — and good.

The public mixing of the genders is leading to enormous tension and fear that violence may break out as men try to defend conservative ideas of honor

Spain's political establishment has rejected a unilateral ceasefire declared by the battered Basque terrorist group ETA. What does it reveal about the cohesion of the separatists — and what they might do next?

The government insists there is no reason for anxiety but the depositors outside Afghanistan's largest bank are implacable. They want their money back

He wasn't here. Two-time Oscar nominee, hip-hop hopeful and international man of mystery Joaquin Phoenix, the subject of Casey Affleck's "documentary" I'm Still Here, was a no-show at the Venice Film Festival's public showing this afternoon.

The President is coming up with programs and plans that sound just like additional stimulus. Just don't call it stimulus!